Building pathology in the Netherlands – main problems and results through research and practice.

Building pathology in the Netherlands – main problems and results through research and practice.

Thomsen, A.F.

Architecture and The Built Environment

OTB

2014-09-02

This report is dedicated to the main problems of building pathologies in the Netherlands and the main solutions through research and practice as questioned by the CIB W086 Building Pathology Commission for its 2014 meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Objective is to contribute to the Research Roadmap 2014-2016 as communicated in January 2014. The content is based on a quick scan of Dutch practice in the field of building pathology and interviews with some key experts. In the Netherlands, building pathology is not a formally acknowledged separate discipline nor profession and the term building pathology or its Dutch equivalents are not widely known nor used. Explicitly labelled pathological practice, research and education is very limited and mainly applied on heritage conservation and legal liability assessment. As a consequence, knowledge dissemination is weak and fragmented. On the other hand, pathology based knowledge combined with life cycle costing and sustainable adaptation has become an essential part of nowadays professional real estate portfolio management. Since new construction in the Netherlands has dropped to a marginal level, tomorrow’s needs and changing demands have to be accommodated in a fast ageing stock. Combined with increasing requirements regarding energy efficiency and sustainable life cycle extension, the adaptation and improvement of the building stock will be a huge task and the need for integrated holistic pathology based knowledge and skills will keep growing.

building pathology
building diagnostics
quality assessment
deficiencies
condition measurement
Netherlands

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CIB W086 Building Pathology Commission

Commission Meeting on Building Pathology, in conjunction with XIII DBMC: International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2 September 2014

Institutional Repository

conference paper

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